Imre Patai diaries and albums

Imre Patai (1894-1949) was born in Budapest, Hungary and was a factory owner, inventor, and physicist. He graduated from Technical University in Budapest in 1924 and founded the Vatea Company later the same year. In 1930 he worked as the Technical Director for the Philips Corporation before returning to Budapest to start a vacuum factory. In 1933 he married Ági Jámbor (1909-1997), a Hungarian concert pianist and music teacher. They lived in Budapest and the Netherlands. In 1940, after the German invasion of the Netherlands, Imre and Agi moved back to Hungary and joined the underground resistance until 1946 when they moved to Sweden. In 1947 Imre and Ági immigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. Imre worked at George Washington University and the Franklin Institute Bartol Laboratory and Ági played with various orchestras and was a teacher at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. After Imre’s death in 1949, Ági continued her career as a pianist and recorded five albums between 1955 and 1957. They had one son (born 6 January 1943, died 8 January 1943).